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When I first heard of “singles charts” in pre-school, I thought music stations were going around the country, talking to single people (as in, people not married or in a relationship), and were asking them what their favorite songs were to compile a Top 100 Singles Chart.I thought it was odd of the music industry to focus on such a specific group of people, but thought, “I guess singles are the ones going to bars and clubs, so they’d know what the newest and best music was (ha!), as opposed to couples, who (I assumed, presumably) were sitting at home being boring.

“That’s someone’s daughter or sister”.Mate, I get that you’re trying to make a point, but she shouldn’t have to be someone’s (insert relation) in order for her to matter. How about “she’s a human being” *period*?

You’re welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed it. To be honest, when I was submitting it, I said to myself “well, I don’t know why I did that, since no one is going to read *that* wall of text”, but judging by your comment and the increasing number of “like”s, people do seem to be appreciating it, which makes me happy. Have a good one! :)

Here’s what I was told years ago:Anatomy was a relatively new concept in art and medicine at the time that had not been made much use of since the time of the Greeks and Romans, so it was a field that was just being re-discovered (and, ultimately, expanded). The way artists and doctors studied anatomy was through cadavers, which were difficult to come by, because of societal and religious restrictions, not only due to conventions of respecting the dead, but also around women’s modesty. So people made do with the bodies of deceased homeless people, vagrants, prisoners, and the like, who tended to be male. So the first anatomically-studied bodies were men’s, and thus the “default” human body became male. Women’s bodies were basically thought of as slightly feminized versions of the male basic form.This is especially true for Michelangelo. If you look at his women, like the sculptures he did for the tomb of Medici family members, they look like women’s heads attached to bloated male bodies sporting stuck-on, smushed boobs. Some have even suggested that his homosexuality was the reason he was so clueless about what a naked woman looks like.****BUT****This explanation never seemed satisfactory to me, since there are so many ways around these purported restrictions and shortcomings. You’re telling me that the Renaissance saw amazing works of engineering and art, yet those same geniuses couldn’t figure out something as basic as half their population’s bodies?And it turns out I was right to be skeptical.SINCE THEN, I’ve since learned a bit more about this, and it seems like the previous theory indeed was not so accurate.A more valid cause behind why the women are masculine-looking has to do with the presumption that the figures they depict (who were often nobility, major historic figures, or even Goddesses) needing to appear powerful and authoritative, which the artists didn’t believe could be achieved with softer, more feminine features. So they butched them up.Also, all art is subject to the trends and preferences of the time and culture in which it is created. Androgyny was popular during the Renaissance, and both patrons and buyers of art preferred androgyny in their figures.There are even more reasons, but it’d take too long to write them all here, so if you’re interested, you can check out these links:https://renresearch.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/men-with-breasts-or-why-are-michelangelos-women-so-muscular-part-1/http://danielmaidman.blogspot.com/2010/12/michelangelo-and-feminine.htmlhttp://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200011233432118

I take 15-20 mins to poop not because it takes that long to do the actual deed, but because I love reading in the bathroom. It’s quiet, I’m very comfortable, no one is bothering me, and it’s just a respite from the incoming day’s breakneck pace once I head out the door.

How is PoA underrated? The internet is full of people gushing about that book, saying it’s their favorite, and professing their undying love to it. It’s easily the most beloved one. If anything, it’s overrated.

Beautiful. But can you actually swim in these places or are the waters too cold (or the currents too strong, or the weather too chilly)? If not, then I don’t understand why Brits flock to the Mediterranean for their holidays when they’ve got gorgeous beaches at home.

Madness! That method gives you double the line. And you have to hold a steadier hand to get a perfect vertical when you go bottom-to-top. Line first all the way.(Kidding aside, I love when the internet erupts in camps when it comes to the most mundane stuff. Just goes to show that what most people take for universal is anything but.)

Exactly. As someone who travels on a frequent basis, I’m a packing ninja — I can figure out the absolute minimum amount of stuff needed for a trip while still looking good, while also being able to squeeze two suitcases of stuff into one piece of luggage, if needed.So while this looks like a nice invention, it wastes so much space that you won’t be able to pack much once all those levels fold down. Not to mention the fact that all that metal is going to eat into your weight allowance pretty quickly.

You got: Sarah Millican
“You and Sarah would plan to go out, but you’d have one glass of wine before you left the house, and that turned into three glasses of wine, and then you’d never leave the house. Eventually you’d accept this and ring for pizza, you’d get chicken strips and garlic bread on the side too. Then you’d tell her all your problems and she’d give you wise and funny advice. You’d then do karaoke on the handy machine she has in her living room, and work on your joint choreography.”I can die a happy man.

I feel like this could easily be a geeky Etsy side business for the artist. He can take commissions on the site (i.e. get a customer’s name), anagram it into something funny/cute, do a sketch thereof, then print the image on a T-shirt, and ship it to the customer for X dollars. I know I’d get one.

“It doesn’t make sense […] for a higher power […] to design us with certain desires built in and then coincidentally make it so those exact desires are what we can’t have.”This is literally the whole point of Abrahamic faiths. You’re (1) given free will, and (2) told the rules. If you can stick by them, you’re rewarded in the afterlife. If you don’t, you’re punished. Life’s a test to see if you’re disciplined and self-controlled enough to be considered “worthy”. If you’re not tempted, then there’s no test.(I’m not at all religious btw. Merely explaining something that should not be the slightest bit confusing.)

Enough with the Joanna hate already. Most of her articles aren’t exactly my cup of tea either, but some give me a chuckle every now and then. Not everything has to conform to your sense of humor or worldview. If you don’t want to read her articles, then STOP READING THEM. The author picture is there for a reason. You lot don’t have the right to unleash the disgusting amount of abuse the last few articles by her have gotten, ranging from death threats to call for her termination. This is a human being with feelings who’s simply publishing joke content on a website, not a member of ISIS, and she doesn’t deserve the amount and severity of hate she gets. Just hit the “fail” button and move on. The internet is big enough for all of us.

Hyphen is for compound words, like try-outs, one-third, pay-as-you-go.
En dash is for ranges (e.g. 1–2 people), pairings (e.g. the US–Cuba conflict), and a bunch of other things.
Em dash is for splitting clauses, as in, “My mom —the daughter of a cook herself— is an amazing chef.”http://grammarist.com/grammar/hyphens/
http://grammarist.com/grammar/en-dash/
http://grammarist.com/grammar/emdash/I’ll give you that the first two are often quite close and are trending toward interchangeability, but an em dash is definitely a separate thing.

Maybe the ones below are more well-known, but you can also convert currency, convert measurements, and do mathematical operations using Google (and Bing).For the first one, you can type your query in the form of “X CurrencyName to OtherCurrencyName”, so for example, “15 USD to EUR” will convert 15 US Dollars to Euros.Same idea for the second one (i.e. units). Type your query in the form of “X UnitName to OtherUnitName”, so for example, “15 square feet to square meters”.For the third one, you can simply type the operation straight into the search bar, like “(((2*37)^2)/12)+75”. Remember to use PEMDAS.

Are you on the board of an airline or something? Almost all other countries have meals (either a sandwich and drink, or actually a full meal) for flights over two hours. And those meals aren’t “free”. They’re covered by the cost of the ticket. And, even if airlines did have timing problems like you’re saying (which they absolutely don’t), there are still ways around that, like jinsco stated above me. It’s attitudes like yours that encourage a race to the bottom on the consumer side, rather than competition on the business side.